Annie John, the title character and the protagonist of the novel, can be considered as a Caribbean bildungsroman.
There are several other novels which present the growth of their central characters... More > while comparing their experiences with the lives of the people of the West Indian colonies where they live.
Some of the famous bildungsromans include “Abeng,” “Beka Lamb,” and “Crick Crack, Monkey.”
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“The Member of the Wedding” by Carson McCullers was first published in 1946. According to the author, it took her five years to write this novel. While writing this novel, she had... More > completed writing another short novel “The Ballad of the Sad Café.”
The author explains that she had worked very hard on this novel, for she desired it to be a perfect piece of literature. She wanted her novel to be one of those works that the least slip can ruin. She wanted that her novel must be beautifully done.
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The narrator of the story is a slightly fictionalized version of Pushkin’s public image. The narrator presents the story in a tone that is educated, intimate, and worldly. However, the narrator... More > often digresses to give more details of this social and intellectual world.
Using this technique of frequent digression, the writer has been able to develop the characters and emphasize the drama of the plot. For all that the plot is quite simple.
It is an aesthetic piece of literature that is highly admired by scholars, critics, educationalists, and book lovers around the world. The verse narrative is highly artful. It very skillfully and beautifully deals with the themes such as life, death, love, ennui, convention, and passion, etc.
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The novel presents the story of Alfred after his friend James gets arrested on the charges of robbing the grocery store where Alfred works. He confronts Major who happens to be the leader of the... More > local gang.
Major is responsible for making James a drug addict. Alfred goes through several harsh experiences and events which teach him that life is not only fighting and winning, it is more about being a contender.
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“Dandelion Wine” by Ray Bradbury was first published in 1957. The story of the novel is set in the summer of 1928. It is set in a fictional town of Green Town, Illinois.
It is presumed... More > that the fictional town in the story is based on Ray Bradbury’s childhood home of Waukegan, Illinois.
“Dandelion Wine” was originally published as a story in Gourmet magazine in June 1953, and after four years Ray Bradbury developed this story into a full-fledged novel.
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As a journalist, Upton Sinclair often exposed corruption in government and business. “The Jungle” was also adapted into a movie in the year 1914, but after that nothing much was done to... More > further popularize the novel.
Upton Sinclair exposes in great detail the food industry in the early 20th century through the present novel. The author has used the meatpacking industry as the setting, but it is just an example of the wrong practices which were widely prevalent. Through this setting the author tried to promote his own vision of socialist politics.
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The present book happens to be the middle volume in her utopian trilogy. The other books in the trilogy are “Moving the Mountain” and “With Her in Ourland.”
That utopian... More > society has a perfect and ideal social order. The society is free of conflicts, war, and domination. The book was first presented as a serial in The Forerunner, a magazine that was edited and written by Gilman between 1909 and 1916.
The tradition of utopian fiction stretches all the way back to Plato’s ‘The Republic.’ The present novel also follows that long tradition of utopian fiction.
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The play was highly praised when it was first launched in March 1959. Both white and black audiences admired the play. It was the first play that portrayed black characters, themes, and conflicts in... More > a highly natural and realistic manner.
“A Raisin In the Sun” explores the issues which were related to the American society that was complacent, including the black contentment with their inferior status, and which eventually led to the civil rights and feminist movements in the 1960s.
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In his lifetime, the author published ten novels and twelve other works. Most of his other works are the collections of short stories. He has also written several non-fiction essays.
It is... More > remarkable that eight out of ten novels written by Schaefer were made into movies. “Shane” is considered as the author’s most famous book.
It was made into a very successful movie in 1953. “Shane” is assessed as the best work of Western fiction ever written.
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In the 1950s, the protagonist of the novel, Wilhelm, reaches the age of forty-four. It becomes obvious that the protagonist had experienced all that the author had experienced in his life.
Tommy... More > Wilhelm lives in America in the 1950s. it is clear that the America was economically much stronger than before. In the backdrop there is the Cold War which inspires great developments in science and technology in America and the Soviet Union.
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